Works as a project lead for the german software company Mayflower GmbH in different SCRUM roles like Product Owner and Scrum Master for teams of 4-12 members. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the field of empirical software engineering and group research. His research focus are management of individual knowledge resources for motivation and coordination process enhancement and team decision processes in agile software development teams.
A Research Proposal for Systematic Behavior Sssessment of Software Engineering Teams
Periklis Tsirakidis
- Ph.D. candidate & Project leader
- Mayflower GmbH
- Mannhardtstraße 6, 80538 Munich, Germany
- periklis.tsirakidis@mayflower.de
Abstract
The key objective of the following article is to propose a research position for further empirical software engineering studies. In this paper the author states his position on how software engineering team behaviour could be studied with focus on group research findings about opinion constructing and decision making processes. The research’s fundaments build upon five topic groups: a) management of individual contributions of knowledge for motivation and coordination enhancement, b) group work phenomena: social loafing, free-riding and sucker-effect c) stimulation of information processing, d) social learning and a collective team mind and e) team decision making. Finally, the purpose of further research is to validate group research findings in the software engineering field and in following to integrate the subsequent findings in a comprehensive assessment guide as part of the software engineering team leadership and coaching field.